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I guess someone went ahead of me because the problem is fixed. After doing (today) apt-get upgrade at the core and image rebuild of the zotac mag. Video issues are corrected!

Greate Job!!!! Was it you L3mce?

For the hdmi sound I guess it is better to start a new post so people is not confused or lost by this post subject but in a few words I can mention what I did.

1. Figure out which port was for HDMI sound. Check xorg log to understand hdmi "monitor" capabilities, in my case for for the MAG was no issue, for the ZBOX it was because I have a DENON receiver so the nvidia driver did not detected HDMI audio capabilities on him.In my case device 7 was the one used for hdmi audio, like L3mce mentioned. I modified the asound template under user pluto and that was it. Of course that before that I did some testing to make sure that device 7 was the one.I erased the line "options snd-hda-intel model=auto " at the modprobe/alsa-base.conf because it was causing problems with the asound.conf file. Disabled the Intel audio board at the bios so only the NVIDIA HDA was seen. Also for the zotac ZBOX I needed to update the alsa drivers because it was not recognize at the begining. If anyone have any questions I will try to do my best to share my little knowledge

Dear Followers of this post. I'm making a step by step guide to get the sound working. With some information from the web and help with LMCE gurus, I will try to do a for dummy's guide (like me ). This guide will solve sound issues and video hopefully. On the next reply.

I guess I got the info too late , I guess I fix it the hard way, since I had nothing to do last night until 1 am for the next feeding of my son (2 weeks old) I decided to make a drastic test, just like the zbox

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.53.runReboot, after it, avwizard was displayed, follow it without any problems and voila!. Did the same with the zbox and both are working perfectly (video issues, alpha and opengl tricks etc), the audio @ the zbox will try it later.

I tried the zsync without success, it dumped an error (did not record it, sorry) and started downloading the entire image again.! That is when I decided to wipe nvidia stuff and start from scratch!. I hope this helps other. I´m willing to do more test if you want in order to help as much as possible for MAG AND zboxes for future users and snapshots.

So, both of these boxes were working in 0810, and now neither work on 1004? That is definitely not news I want to hear.

At this moment in time, you do not need to update your own driver manually. It does what it needs to do, based on what is needed, though HDMI audio might requre a little massage (it also upgrades your alsa version) based on requirements.If you would, please, ssh into the core, and sudo ssh moonXX (where XX is the MD number) and just copy and paste the following into each MD and pastebin or post the results here.

lspci -nn | grep VGAgrep 'Driver' /etc/X11/xorg.confapt-cache policy pluto-nvidia-drivers apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-260Lastly, how did you install? Snapshot or network? If snapshot, please note which one. Did you change any of the settings in web admin?

You do not need to revert to 810. I will get you up and running. If you want to drop into IRC I can get you going in short order, but I need to figure out why this is not happening automagically.

l3mce, Here are the results for the MAG, do you need for the zbox even tough video is working?

One quick question, do I have to to this on the router also, what about the other md (the MAG), should I do the zsync? Will this correct the video issues?I'll try the hdmi audio changes and keep you posted. BTW, the MAG is the INTEL ATOM N330, NVIDIA ION

Last night I was sooo tired that I didn't had the energy to write the entire story, so Ill try to explain a little bit more for education purpose only

Karel:ZOTAC ZBOX model :1d41ZOTAC MAG Ill get this info later

L3mce:Installation of the core was from a snapshot, Ill get the number later, Im not at home yet. What I really did is that the Core was updated/upgraded several times until last week when I started doing both md's. Both md's were image rebuild twice just to make sure it was done with the latest upgrades.

What where the issues:MAG: no video playback unter UI V2, also no screensaver available (moving background images), the rest worked perfectly. Sound via HDMI by only selecting it on the wizard, no issues during the entire process of the wizard. Downgrading the UI to v1 I was able to watch videos but only one :S, if I try to load another, the video box was gone

ZBOX: same as above except no audio.

Both machines played video perfectly within KDE

I left the MAG as control box and started messing up with the zbox. Last night after upgrading nvidia drivers to 295 It did nothing to solve the video problem until I did something else, apt-get upgrade last night, it did upgraded something else because I got again the avwizard and after it. Video is perfect. I believe it was not related to the upgrade, I believe it was related to running the avwizard after upgrading the video drivers. I will try to do the same with the MAG (but I will get l3mce info first, sounds interesting, before erasing the evidence!.)After manually upgrading ALSA to 1.25, aplay and mixer sees nvidia, unmuted all the channels but still no sound. I guess Im closer to success, I hope!

Finally after making the big decision of migrating to 1004 (from a working 810) I am facing some issues with the video playback. The problem is that (on both) there is no video playback, only sound, I only the the black square box where the video should be playing. If I go to KDE desktop, xine and mplayer works perfectly. I found that if I change the ui orbiter from v2 to v1 without alpha blend and open gl stuff I get the video output but if I mess it up by fw or rw it will go away until Quick Reload the router. Any hints???As feedback to all, for the zotac MAG installation was completely smooth, even hdmi audio during avwizard but for the ZBOX im still fighting with the hdmi audio. Hopefully by updating alsa from 1.22 to 1.25 fill fix the problem because the card is not even detected by aplay.

Video playback issues are not corrected by updating video drivers. I installed 295 at the zbox and the problem is persistent DENON 2311 via usb-serial cable was plug&play detected and also LG LCD screen.

I guess I will have to go back to 810 before my wife kills me. Before she hated the "geek" stuff by having all videos and home automation on the TV, now she can't live without it!!!... so she continues complaining hahahahaha.... who can understand them... :S!

I would 1004 a try but is there a painless migration?.... I guess that's a self answer question, I can already hear all the forum saying...... "There is no Painless action within LMCE and Linux!!!!". If I go 1004, do I have to setup all from scratch? Will I loose all my media?

Thanks Seth!!!!. I was able to login. It was a repositories issue. I updated and update/ upgrade without problems. Now the issue is that once it reboots, I get no error but I can only see black screen with the cursor, I can move it but there is nothing to do. Maybe trying to run the installation scripts could solve this. Thanks again, the link was perfect!

Just to share a little bit of what is going on and to understand better LMCE. I had successfully install LMCE on a ZOTAC MAG as an MD. Works perfect if you get VDPAU working. This time I wanted to setup another MD but this time it is a ZBOX with more cpu juice!

The problem I'm getting is that I don't get to the av wizard due to some issue with the nvidia driver but I could not see it, it continues scrolling during boot and gets locked under samba service started. It is not really locked, if I press enter, it goes to the login. Then here comes the interesting part. When logged as linuxmce I can't do anything. If I do whoami, it says I'm sambahelper and I don't know the passwd for it. I´m unable to install anything because linuxmce does not have the rights. If I do sudo, it asks for the sambahelper passwd. WHO IS SAMBAHELPER!, is not helping at all. I can start the xserver but can't do anything because of the rights of linuxmce user. Any hints?. Does root has a password? or Sambahelper?. Where can I get the boot log to see why it failed to install the nvidia drivers?

Dear All I´m very happy to see people interested on this topic, I really wish I could understand Linux more to help, I just dropped the idea but you guys are amazing , for me you are all talking in another language but I'm starting to learn little by little.

Keep up the good work, I wish I could bring the beers for moral support but I guess it will be a little bit difficult.

Thanks to all, Im not good in linux but I will give it my best. Maybe I find something usefull for all. The way I see it is that I see an option under webadmin that you could just click to the MD page and update/upgrade, maybe it is not possible, maybe it is. For now, a good script should be a good progress. I hope I get the knoledge soon to make my own script and share it to all.

Is it possible to update/upgrade all the MD's from the core?. If I have several MD's if i want to keep them updated, all of them have to download from the internet the packages. Since they all boot up from the core, which means that they all should be at the same version of the core, would be faster to set up all the MD's to do the apt-get update/upgrade from the core?My apologies if this is a dumb question, I just couldn't find an answer on the forum search

Hi Barney, thanks for the info and sorry for the off topic, it wasnt my intention.

I'm having a problem now that I don't understand, the settings for the LG template are not permanent. Everytime I reboot the MD or quick reload, the configurations of the serial port, and unchecked "Disable" option under advance are lost. Any ideas?Apparently PNP is messing things up